Module 1

Welcome & get ready for the course

Author
Affiliation

Lars Schöbitz

ETH Zurich

This first week will be used to get you set up for the course.

Learning Objectives

  1. Learners can access the Posit Cloud workspace for the course.
  2. Learners can use the Element chat to introduce themselves.
  3. Learners can open an issue on GitHub and tag the course instructor.
  4. Learners can clone a repository from GitHub and use the GitHub PAT to push a commit from their local repository to GitHub.
  5. Learners can identify four components of a Quarto file (YAML, code chunk, R code, markdown).

Slides

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Readings

Assignments

Due date: September 17, 2025

Please complete the following assignments before the due date. They are a pre-requisite for the second module.

Thank you for working through these assignments.

Quiz

Due date: September 24, 2025 Due date extended: October 02, 2025 (as for Quiz 2)

Complete this quiz after you have worked through the assignments. Completing the quiz of each week is required to receive a course certificate at the end of the course.

Access the quiz here: https://u4x6xe-lars-sch0bitz.shinyapps.io/ds4owd-002-quiz/

You can verify your submissions using our Live Quiz Checker.

Session Recording

You can access the Zoom recording of Module 1 on September 11, 2025. To watch the recording, you will need to register for it.

Register for the recording and watch it at this link: https://ethz.zoom.us/rec/share/aySDHB4KRgHmj-9NtrMyxbrwkBFCEqozQ-a8lyAKLLpumEoUFoI7mQNNSkrapDa_.jq3-cW0CP1qUYYNW

Note: The video will show once the recording has been processed.